| strange | | |
| adj. | 1. strange, unusual | being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird.; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" |
| ~ antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque | ludicrously odd.; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" |
| ~ crazy | bizarre or fantastic.; "had a crazy dream"; "wore a crazy hat" |
| ~ curious, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, funny, singular, odd | beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" |
| ~ eery, eerie | inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening.; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" |
| ~ exotic | strikingly strange or unusual.; "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet" |
| ~ freaky | strange and somewhat frightening.; "the whole experience was really freaky" |
| ~ gothic | characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque.; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'" |
| ~ oddish | somewhat strange. |
| ~ other | very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected.; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail" |
| ~ quaint | strange in an interesting or pleasing way.; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" |
| ~ quaint | very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance.; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"; "a quaint sense of humor" |
| ~ weird | strikingly odd or unusual.; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow" |
| adj. | 2. strange, unknown | not known before.; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house" |
| ~ unfamiliar | not known or well known.; "a name unfamiliar to most"; "be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings" |
| adj. | 3. foreign, strange | relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world.; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city" |
| ~ adventive | not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized.; "an adventive weed" |
| ~ exotic, alien | being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world.; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" |
| ~ nonnative | of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing. |
| ~ naturalized, established | introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation. |
| ~ foreign-born, nonnative | of persons born in another area or country than that lived in.; "our large nonnative population" |
| ~ imported | used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source.; "imported wines" |
| ~ tramontane | being or coming from another country.; "tramontane influences" |
| ~ unnaturalised, unnaturalized | not having acquired citizenship. |
| unlooked-for | | |
| adj. | 1. out of the blue, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for | not anticipated.; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue" |
| ~ unexpected | not expected or anticipated.; "unexpected guests"; "unexpected news" |
| irony | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn.; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own" |
| ~ humor, wit, witticism, wittiness, humour | a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" |
| ~ incongruity, incongruousness | the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate. |
| ~ socratic irony | admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning. |
| n. (communication) | 3. irony | a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs. |
| ~ antiphrasis | the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony). |
| ~ dramatic irony | (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |
| ~ figure of speech, trope, image, figure | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. |
| ~ pretty | (used ironically) unexpectedly bad.; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish" |
| ~ deserving, worth | worthy of being treated in a particular way.; "an idea worth considering"; "the deserving poor" |
| ~ indeed | (used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc..; "Wants to marry the butler? Indeed!" |
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